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13 hours ago
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Stags sign Forest's Gardner on season-long loan
Mansfield have agreed a season-long loan deal for young Nottingham Forest forward Joe Gardner can operate as a centre-forward or attacking midfielder and links up with his Forest B team-mate Kyle McAdam, who signed on loan for the Stags at the end of 20-year-old spent the second half of last season on loan with Mansfield's League One rivals Lincoln City, scoring once in 11 appearances for the who has joined Nigel Clough's side on their pre-season tour of Ireland, said: "I've been out here only a couple of days and the lads have made me feel very welcome."I'm really looking forward to the season and hoping to impress."
BBC News
31-01-2025
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Forest forward Gardner joins Lincoln on loan
Lincoln City have signed versatile teenage forward Joe Gardner from Nottingham Forest on loan for the remainder of the 19-year-old has made just one first-team appearance for Forest, which was as a substitute in their FA Cup fourth-round win against Bristol City that went to a penalty shooutout last - whose loan move comes on the same day that he has agreed a new Forest contract - featured for the Reds' Under-21 side in the EFL Trophy this season, and has scored six goals in 12 appearances for their Premier League 2 boss Michael Skubala says Gardner is a player they have been "watching closely for quite some time" and who has been brought in after Jack Moylan suffered a potentially season-ending injury."It has been sped along quicker because of the Jack Moylan situation," Skubala told BBC Radio Lincolnshire."We see him as that player with a little bit more of a Jack Moylan-profile that can do special things and open the game up."He is a real exciting prospect. We would definitely have looked to do this in the summer, but it has probably been sped along into January with the view to even keep him if he does well."
